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 A three-year-old kid knows the capitals of all the countries in the world. Strange isn’t it? Aditya proved right all the time. More such strange performances came to light at a spectacular memory show that was organized and witnessed by several thousands of people at the Nehru Indoor Stadium. This event was declared the world’s biggest ever show on any mind sport.
The first ever Memory Asiad 2001 was held in Chennai between 13 and 15 July 2001 and was organized by Madras Academy for Excellence (MAX). During the first two days, in-camera championships were held which included 10 events competed by as many as 66 participants from 9 countries. Hon’ble Justice K. Gnanaprakasam headed the jury and inaugurated the
Asiad.
DR. J.N. Reddy, convenor of the event, said that among the participants, Mrs. R. Lalitha excelled in recalling 2885 digit random binary numbers in just 1 hr. and 50 min. to set a world record. Mr. K. Nishanth has a new national record of 1944 random digit recall. Dr. John Morais, professor, Gurunanak College, broke the Guinness Record of recognising the day for a given date in 3.8 secs. Of the 10 events, new records were set in as many as 7 events. The Limca book of records also monitored the championship.
 Other winners - Karthik Balaji in Words (228 words and 500 nos.), R. Janaki in words (362 words in 1 hr. 48 mins.), Bipin Kumar V. in Digits (1280 digits in 1 hr and 56 mins.), R. Janaki in Speed Objects (149 words in 30 mins.), Bipin Kumar V. in Speed Digits (197 digits in 10 mins. 9 secs.), Mrs. Kankgalkhmi Anand in Speed Binary Digits (195 Digits in 4 mins. 57 secs.), John Louis in Shuffled Deck of Cards in (5 mins. 26 secs. with 8 mistakes), Dr. John Morais in Perpetual Calendar (3.8 Average - sec per given date) exhibited their wonderful talent.
 Other performers included Thriukural Srinivasan and Raman Kutty who could recall the slokas of Bhagavadgita; Sarvanan who could call out the provisions of any section of the Income tax and Sisra; Sindura and Abhirami who performed the memory dance narrating the name of the ragas while dancing. All the actions were a result of extraordinary memory power which stunned the audience
The event was co-sponsored by The Hindu, Ryan Group (Delhi) & Traxx. Hotel. Pratap Plaza hosted the outstation delegates.
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